Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1918 — WINGED MESSENGERS IN WAR [ARTICLE]

WINGED MESSENGERS IN WAR

Often When Telephonic and Other Communication Are Cut, Pigeons Reach Home Safely. s Members of the Quaker City Concourse association, one of the big national pigeon-flying organizations, have expressed a willingness to supply the government with a number of their winged messengers for war service. During the spring it is expected that thousands of pigeons will be shipped abroad. It is reported that 97 per cent of the pigeons released in the European trenches, often when telephonic and all other means of communication are cut off, reach their destination in safety, thus delivering Im portant messages.